888 



identical with the parent plant. We again express a hope that the 

 names of elatior and occlip will not be applied to this species. — Ed.]. 



Surrey Natural History Society. 



At the monthly meeting of the Surrey Natural History Society, held 

 at Guildford, on Thursday evening, the 6th inst,, Mr. Alexander Irvine 

 exhibited living specimens of Lathraja squamaria, from Inwood copse, 

 on the north side of the Hogs-back, being parasitical upon the roots 

 of the elm : Mr. H. Bull first discovered this station in the spring 

 of 1846. 



Mr. J. D. Salmon presented dried specimens of Malaxis paludosa, 

 from the bogs on Putteuham common, adjoining Hampton Lodge, 

 being the first notice of its occurrence in the county of Surrey. 



Mr. J. 11. Capron stated that he would at the next mothly meeting 

 read a paper upon fresh-water Algae, and exhibit some microscopical 

 illustrations collected from the immediate neighbourhood. 



J. D. Salmon. 



Godahning, June 16, 1847. 



Remarks on Cnicus Forsteri (Smith). By David Moore, Esq. 



In the ' Phytologist' for this month, your correspondent " C." in his 

 notice of the second edition of Babington's 'Manual of British Botany,' 

 stai'ts a query of some importance in reference to Cnicus Forsteri, 

 namely, supposing that plant a hybrid, which two of our British 

 species are we to suppose the parents ? A similar idea occurred to me 

 some years ago, when I collected C. Forsteri in the north of Ireland, 

 in two separate localities, and in both instances growing in company 

 with quantities of Cnicus pratensis and Cnicus palustris. 



I then adopted Mr. Borrer's original view in considering it a hybrid 

 production between those two species, which it appears exactly 

 intermediate with, but now, after having a considerable degree of 

 experience with the plant in a cultivated state, I feel more doubtful on 

 this subject, for the following reasons. The plants, which were 

 brought from the natural habitats, produced some fertile seeds in the 

 Botanic Garden, the following year after they were planted, from 

 which young plants were raHsed, precisely resembling the parent in 

 every tcay, and the experiment has been several times repeated with 

 the same result. I brought C. Forsteri hither from a marshy meadow 



